Titles banned, data deleted, the nation’s librarians sacked without explanation – Donald Trump’s war on books is a threat to democracy across the world, ...

The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism

The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism

Ella Al-Shamahi is the erudite presenter of a breathtaking new series about our 300,000-year history. But her own evolution story isn’t short of drama ei...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

The Observer recently published a major investigation into the bestselling memoir The Salt Path. In this special episode, Giles Whittell is joined by the journalist behind the story, Chloe Hadjimatheo...

A summary of our launch with Jane Barrett from Reuters, David Rhodes from Sky News and Basia Cummings from the Observer.

In his most frank conversation since he was attacked onstage three years ago, Salman Rushdie addresses his recovery, the importance of fiction in an era ...

An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society

Robert Prevost would have seen greed, racism and corruption growing up in the Windy City, but he is a champion of the humanity we Chicagoans value

The Russian journalist was forced to leave her homeland, family and friends or face years in prison after denouncing the invasion of Ukraine

A superpowered Florence Pugh reprises her Black Widow assassin role in this toned-up Marvel movie

To my elder siblings, asking me to host would be like nominating my three-year-old daughter to be their doula

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Cases of scheming, hacking and misdirection are growing among advanced AI models

The Observer has obtained private family court papers that show how a system meant to protect children failed a ten-year-old girl

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In his bid to make America great again, Trump has weakened his oldest ally and strengthened Keir Starmer’s hand

The Wincott Foundation received more than 150 entries for its 2024 awards with a host of podcasts, videos, data analysis and written submissions which…

The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

Tortoise Media has formally signed the deal to buy The Observer and appointed Lucy Rock as the brand's editor (print).

The 2011 phone hacking scandal continues to drip poison onto former executives from Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers, including Washington Post publisher Will Lewis

New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?